About Ruth
Ruth Anthony-McClary is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. Her style is warm and respectful and she aims to meet each person where they are.
Ruth uses a practical, conversational approach. She listens first, then helps clients set small, doable goals. Sessions are geared toward building coping skills and improving day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing grief, relationship pain, parenting strain, career changes, and compassion fatigue. Her work draws on several therapy methods to match the person’s needs. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Attachment-based ideas help when relationships and intimacy are a concern. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce stress and bring attention back to the present moment. Ruth adapts plans to each person’s situation and preferences.
She helps people work through abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, aging and caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and communication problems. She also addresses more complex personality and behavioral challenges when they affect daily life. Based in New Jersey, Ruth conducts sessions in English.
She frames therapy as a partnership and guides people toward practical changes. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to provide steady support while clients try new ways of coping and relating.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Ruth often blends cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and can help with intimacy, abandonment, and relationship concerns.She also uses client-centered techniques, which means conversation is guided by the person’s needs and goals. Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist and client decide together which methods fit best based on symptoms, goals, and personal preferences.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging helps keep work moving between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue steady work on anxiety, stress, trauma, and relationship issues with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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